[Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure

[Donna Hunt via Callers]

 Here's one I wrote.  I mostly use the Balance and swing in B1 (read below)

Mark and Robin's Nest      



by Donna Hunt
      
Duple Improper

  

    


    
Start with Actives (# 1 couple) in the center of line of 4 facing down the hall.
  
  
    
A1
    
Down the hall as in the "Gay Gordon" couple dance    (3 steps forward turn alone and 3 steps backward)
        Repeat up the hall to place    (3 steps forward turn alone and 3 steps backward.        Note: dancers end facing down the hall)
  
  
    
A2
    
(Bend the line)    Circle Left 1x
		Do-Si-Do Neighbor
  
  
    
B1
    
Actives Gypsy (or Neighbor Balance) 
		Neighbor Swing
  
  
    
B2
    
Long Lines Fwd and Back
		Actives Swing
  
  
    


    

 
        To honor the wedding of Mark and Robin Schaffer on Oct 19, 2003, and the home (nest) they created.


 

Donna
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mac Mckeever via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
To: Tavi Merrill <melodiouswoodchuck at gmail.com>; callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: Mon, Jan 16, 2017 5:48 pm
Subject: Re: [Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure



One I call frequently is 



Jim's Reel by Steve Snurr




A1 Do Si Di N 1 1/4 ti WL - ladies in center, Rt hand to N
     Remember this WL - we will come back to it

     Bal Line - Trun N by R 1/2 - Gents pull by L
A2 B&SW P
B1 Down hall 4 steps - turn alone - back up 4 steps
      For 4 steps - turn alone back up 4 steps
B2 Cir L 5 places until you can collapse to original WL
     Bal (on last 4 beats)
A1 walk for to new N - as dance starts over


Great dance


Mac McKeever





  
 
 
  
 From: Tavi Merrill via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
 To: callers at lists.sharedweight.net 
 Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 4:20 PM
 Subject: [Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure
  
 



Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka "We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a modified "lines of four down the hall." 

I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the hall. 

I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out there know what the first contra to use this figure is?  

Tavi

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